{"id":13606,"date":"2011-09-28T04:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=13606"},"modified":"2011-09-27T10:14:57","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T17:14:57","slug":"the-deserted-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/09\/28\/the-deserted-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The deserted city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Amid the bustle.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>While my snaps of cities are invariably taken during the hustle and bustle of a busy day, I tend to seek out silence and maybe a lone figure, to better show the beauty of a scene.  Here are two examples.  The first is near Mission Street:<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of Ambrose Bierce a friend writes:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can almost smell that big city, late afternoon, breezy smell, with that old immense highrise feel shrinking you down to size.  Shadows and dazzling edifices reaching for the sky&#8230;..and, at the bottom, a boutique dress shop and the Wing Yap Noodle Factory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Ambrose_Bierce.jpg\" width=\"548\" height=\"814\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Ambrose Bierce Street, SF, named after the American satirist. Also known as Aldrich Street.<br \/>\nLooking south toward Annie Street.  G3, kit lens @17mm, 1\/250, f\/5.6, ISO 320.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The second is on lovely Leidesdorff Street in the Business District:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Leidesdorff_Street.jpg\" width=\"814\" height=\"548\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>G3, kit lens @ 42mm, 1\/400, f\/5.6, ISO 320.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The G3&#8217;s sensor does a lovely job here, rendering an especially full, creamy tonal range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the bustle. While my snaps of cities are invariably taken during the hustle and bustle of a busy day, I tend to seek out silence and maybe a lone figure, to better show the beauty of a scene. Here are two examples. The first is near Mission Street: In the spirit of Ambrose Bierce &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/09\/28\/the-deserted-city\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The deserted city<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13608,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13606\/revisions\/13608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}